Movies: Lotte Reiniger

Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the magician’s plan, and soars headlong ...

This short documentary looks at the animated art of Lotte Reiniger. We are taken through a demonstration by Lotte herself on the way she cut out, constructed and filmed a silhouette character. She also discusses how she developed the use of coloured ...

The Three Wise Men from the East follow the star to Bethlehem, but hostile spirits try to stop them on their journey....

Snow White and Rose Red give shelter to a bear who reveals himself to be a prince under a spell cast by a wicked dwarf....

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Lotte Reiniger's interpretation of Grimm's recorded version of Aschenputtel (Cinderella) from 1922....

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fighting for freedom....

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger....

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness of some of the great animation pioneers who have worked in Britain – trailblazing talents such as Len Lye,...

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one....

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Aladdin, a poor tailor in Baghdad, discovers a magic lamp with a genie inside. After he uses it to gain wealth and the hand of the caliph's daughter, he must fend off an evil sorcerer who wants the lamp for himself....

An animated short film based on the famous fairytale by the Brothers Grimm about the enterprising cat in boots and a feather hat, who manages to procure for his poor master a princess, an ogre's castle, and a kingdom....

Lotte Reiniger's earliest preserved fairytale film based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen....

A silhouette animation based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale "Hansel & Gretel"....

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A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he promised, he plays his tune again with consequences. This film...

A wicked giant attempts to steal all of the instruments from a small town....

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”....

Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company....